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hn111 | 9 months ago

Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...

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dr_dshiv|9 months ago

“Anyone opensourcing anything while in the course of ‘commercial activity’ will be fully liable. Effectively they rugpulled the Apache2 / MIT licenses... all opensource released by small businesses is fucked. where the was no red tape now there is infinite liability”

This is my current understanding, from a friend not a lawyer. Would appreciate any insight from folks here.

spiderfarmer|9 months ago

So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?

andrepd|9 months ago

Yeah, just the usual hn FUD about the EU.

throwaway894345|9 months ago

Can you reconcile that with this sibling comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074070

I don’t have an opinion, just trying to make sense of contradictory claims.